You mean all the c compilers will give 'unknown' a special process???
On Nov 15, 2007 11:04 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Em Qui, 2007-11-15 às 09:43 +0800, kevin liu escreveu: > > > Dear everyone: > > I am reading v4l2 tuner part code these days, when I come to mt20xx.c, > > in microtune_init(), the use of the char pointer name maybe cause some > > fatal error sometimes for this state: > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > 507 name = "unknown"; > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > while pointer name doesn't have its memory. > > And I wonder why gcc can't give any warnings? > > Because this works properly and it has a valid syntax/semantic. > > Any C compiler will add "unknown" string to the data segment and 'name' > will point to this area. > > Cheers, > Mauro > > _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
